Tesla Electric Cars: Revved Up, but Far to Go
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You can typically read the bias in these articles by simply looking at the spin of the first sentence of each paragraph, because it's the pauses between the paragraphs that set the poise and direction of the monologue.
There are some common patterns though, and these are worth thinking about because they come straight out of drama and literature. Poise the character as a charismatic, ambitious person. Then start whittling him down. The common themes here are his moments of naivete, the femme fatale, the awful reality of the situation, what others now think of him.
Note that none of these plot elements actually have much (if anything) to do with the economic viability of Tesla, and as such, the title is inappropriate. It does however, make for great rhetoric. Great narratives are rarely, if ever, the bare truth of such specific situations.
“He’s one of these just unboundedly ambitious people;
that’s probably the single most important thing about him,
and he’s an eternal optimist, to a fault sometimes,”